(This is the transcript of an episode I just posted to The Filter podcast. I’ve included the audio here as well if you prefer to listen on-site) What I'm going to present right now is, I'd admit, a half baked theory about evolution and entropy. But it is at least somewhat baked, and based on something. If you are an evolutionary biologist you might hate this, and you might spend the entire episode yelling at your computer screen. If so, I recommend a honey lemon lozange for your throat, and commenting below to make sure no one, even me, gets away with being wrong on the internet.
Just as an aside: life on earth is about 4 billion years old, the universe is roughly four times older. This means that panspermia increases the time evolution had to work with by less than an order of magnitude. Which is why I found panspermia never that interesting.
Just as an aside: life on earth is about 4 billion years old, the universe is roughly four times older. This means that panspermia increases the time evolution had to work with by less than an order of magnitude. Which is why I found panspermia never that interesting.